The redesign/refurbishing of Karavansara continues during this month of August.
Currently undergoing a much needed overhaul is the Karavansara Tumblr, which is called, in case you missed it, West of Constantinople, East of Shanghai WoCEoS for short. Continue reading
Babylon and Byzantium
Being graphically inept, I am endlessly fascinated by anyone able to express their creativity through images.
Imagine my reaction when, during the weekend, I was shown Babylon 3D.
Manhattan Transfer
A few nights back I was trying to turn on my friend Claire to the music of Manhattan Transfer1, but the web was against us.
But I’m not the sort that’s easily deterred, especially when the Man Tran are concerned.
So here’s the video for The Offbeat of Avenues, that has the right pulpy/noirish style to fit Karavansara to a T.
Enjoy!
Soundscapes
Back in the days before Facebook…
Boy does that sound old!
But it’s true – there was a time when there were no social networks as such, and we roamed freely through the web, looking for new treasures, for people to meet, for information to trade.
Most of us ad websites, some were beginning to dabble with blogs.
It was in that heroic time that I discovered The Quiet American.
No, not the Graham Green novel1
The Quiet American is a website – and the alias of the gentleman that maintains2 it.
The website hosts a huge collection of sounds. Continue reading
Writing Prompt – Feel like reading?
London, October 8 1940
Interesting piece from Den of Geek:
Could Pulp Novels Be Hollywood’s Next Comic Books?
By the gods! – Cursing in Latin redux
A while back I did a post about cursing in Latin and Ancient Greek.
In my Aculeo & Amunet stories, Latin and Classical Greek swearwords are often used as a replacement for English-language swearwords – it’s fun, it adds a nice period-feel, makes happy the philologists among my readers and allows my characters to talk dirty without actually being dirty.
Because irrumator is a lot better than a##hole.
But what about invoking the name of the gods? Continue reading
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